The import guidelines require that imports be done from a dedicated account, after consultation with the local community and be documented on the wiki.These imports were not done from a dedicated account.

I would suggest that the dedicated account have a link to your main account for contact purposesand have a listing of any imports you have done on it with links to the entries in the import catalogue

Additionally I can't find a any consultation that was done over this import with the imports@ mailing list. Can you provide me a pointer to it?Lastly this import was dumped in on top of existing data, leading to a mess of duplicate forests. Because of this I'm going to go ahead and revert them.

As a general reminder, the other import guidelines can be found on the wiki. These include appropriate documentation consultation with the local community and the imports@ mailing list having a plan to fix an mistakes in case of a broken upload other technical requirements

Re: Šume - Corine Land Cover

Hi Alen,since I am not using the email behind my import OSM-ID much, I would like to answer here. I speak only "samo malo" serbian. I hope it is okay to write you in english.It is pretty easy to clip the CLC shapefile for a specific country. You only need QGIS and JOSM. I have made it with these steps1.) find out the border ID and download the border only by selecting "Download Object" -> selecting polygon and entering the border multipolygon ID2.) delete all tags, select all ways, merge all ways to one big way and delete all relation at the end. Save it as border.osm or something like that. DO NOT UPLOAD3.) Open the border.osm with QGIS (OSM plugin enabled)4.) select only the polygon on the left side (not the points or lines) and right click "save as" and save as ESRI Shapefile5.) restart QGIS (or drop all layers at the left)6.) Open the border shapefile and the CLC file together with "Layer" -> "Add Vector Layer". This can take some time7.) Now select Vector->Geoprocessing Tools ->Intersect. Input Layer = CLC, Intersect Layer = border and give it a name where it should be saved. Press OK

Now you have CLC forest shapefile that ends exactly at the border.....Be very careful when importing. I usually (MNE in process, SRB finished some time ago) add a layer with CLC in JOSM and another with OSM content. Then I adjust CLC in case of area overlap, join duplicate nodes and such stuff. Also delete all other content (tag/values) in JOSM that is not welcome in the OSM database

Re: Šume - Corine Land Cover

SunCobalt wrote:

Hi Alen,since I am not using the email behind my import OSM-ID much, I would like to answer here. I speak only "samo malo" serbian. I hope it is okay to write you in english.It is pretty easy to clip the CLC shapefile for a specific country. You only need QGIS and JOSM. I have made it with these steps1.) find out the border ID and download the border only by selecting "Download Object" -> selecting polygon and entering the border multipolygon ID2.) delete all tags, select all ways, merge all ways to one big way and delete all relation at the end. Save it as border.osm or something like that. DO NOT UPLOAD3.) Open the border.osm with QGIS (OSM plugin enabled)4.) select only the polygon on the left side (not the points or lines) and right click "save as" and save as ESRI Shapefile5.) restart QGIS (or drop all layers at the left)6.) Open the border shapefile and the CLC file together with "Layer" -> "Add Vector Layer". This can take some time7.) Now select Vector->Geoprocessing Tools ->Intersect. Input Layer = CLC, Intersect Layer = border and give it a name where it should be saved. Press OK

Now you have CLC forest shapefile that ends exactly at the border.....Be very careful when importing. I usually (MNE in process, SRB finished some time ago) add a layer with CLC in JOSM and another with OSM content. Then I adjust CLC in case of area overlap, join duplicate nodes and such stuff. Also delete all other content (tag/values) in JOSM that is not welcome in the OSM database

Hi Thomas,

It's OK you don't speak Bosnian/ Croatian / Serbian, English is pretty common here. Thank you for your answer. I sent a message to you thinking that you are from Montenegro or Serbia (since you are doing imports there). I am very grateful for the information you provided regarding the clipping the .shp file only for the area of specific country, because, until now, I was deleting parts of the polygons which have been crossing the border, and also because now I can manipulate .shp files a lot easier without unnecessary areas.

Me and my colleague use only some tags, like i.e.: landuse=forest, wood= coniferous, source: EEA website (and nothing alse), so there wouldn't be any clutter tags in the database.